China’s reputation abroad

The other day I went to a friend’s wife’s parent’s country house. It’s very popular to have country houses among those Bogotáns who can afford it, because they hate Bogotá so much.. The one I went to was more like a palace though..

After a long 5 hours of relationship building, the hosts have become familiar and comfortable with me. The owner of the dog confessed to me, ‘When I found out that you were coming, I was considering hiding Kira.’ There is no way to find out if she was only joking.. The fact that the idea came across her says a lot about what Chinese are in the minds of the people of a faraway land.

Chinese are famous for their fondness of eating everything that is alive. My teacher told me the other day, ‘Chinese eat everything! If there was a fly passing by in the house, the Chinese would catch it, fry it in the pan, and eat it.’ We Chinese really have a lot of much-needed international publicity work to do..